Laugh of the day: Obama blames McCain for messianic imagery

posted at 12:30 pm on August 17, 2008 by Ed Morrissey

Earlier, I linked to the CBN interview David Brody conducted with Barack Obama to point out the Democrat’s continued untruthfulness on the infanticide-prevention measure that Obama opposed in the Illinois legislature. In reading one other portion of the interview transcribed by Brody, Obama accuses John McCain of deliberately targeting him with both messianic and anti-Christ imagery in an attempt to impugn his character:

Brody: Let me ask you a little about some of these ads that John McCain has been running not just on television, but on the web. Let’s face it, let’s call a spade a spade, there has been some Messianic references, there’s been some antichrist stuff going on, the celebrity, they’re trying to pigeonhole you a certain way. Do you believe this is being done on purpose?

Obama: Well of course it’s being done on purpose. They’re not spending a whole bunch of money to make me out as a good guy. They’re engaging in the kind of politics that I think we’ve become accustomed to which is you try to tear your opponents down and you engage in sort of slash and burn tactics. And very personal sort of personal character attacks. And one of the challenges for us in this campaign is how do you make sure those attacks are answered quickly and forcefully, but also truthfully and that we don’t fall into that same kind of tactic.

Obama doesn’t fall into the same tactic? Really? How about on June 21st in Jacksonville, when he accused McCain of preparing racist attacks on him?

“It is going to be very difficult for Republicans to run on their stewardship of the economy or their outstanding foreign policy,” Obama told a fundraiser in Jacksonville, Florida. “We know what kind of campaign they’re going to run. They’re going to try to make you afraid.

“They’re going to try to make you afraid of me. He’s young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s black?”

Or perhaps July 30, when Obama claimed that McCain had already begun racist attacks:

“They know that you’re not real happy with them and so the only way they figure they’re going to win this election is if they make you scared of me,” Obama continued, repeating an attack from earlier in the day. “What they’re saying is ‘Well, we know we’re not very good but you can’t risk electing Obama. You know, he’s new, he doesn’t look like the other presidents on the currency, he’s a got a funny name.’”

As for the anti-Christ imagery, no one can actually point to anything coming from the McCain campaign, except for Obama’s own logo coming out of a sunset in one commercial poking fun at his celebrity, which apparently resembles the cover art from Tim LaHaye’s rapture-based Left Behind novel series. On the charges of racism, Dan Balz notes that the Obama campaign cannot produce a single example from either the McCain campaign or the RNC. Obama hasn’t let a lack of evidence keep him from perptuating his smear campaign against John McCain — which means he’s doing exactly what he claims here that he isn’t.

Besides, who was it that came up with these images? They didn’t come from McCain supporters:

As far as I know, it wasn’t McCain that had women fainting at his feet in a series of campaign events. And McCain didn’t write the speech in which Obama claimed that his nomination was the moment “the oceans began to recede and the planet began to heal”:

Because if we are willing to work for it, and fight for it, and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth.

Comments

If you were a Republican congressman would you be more likely to vote against and criticize a Republican President or a Democrat President?

MB4 on August 18, 2008 at 1:28 AM

If I were a Congressman, I’d evaluate the decisions made independent of the party affiliation of the proponent – indeed, independent of the proponent. But I recognize that this does not apply to actual Congressman, so your point remains.

America elects adults to POTUS. I really wouldn’t worry this time out. The Dhimmis are ALWAYS a gazillion points ahead in the polls during the summer. Right now the two are tied. That spells total annihilation for BHO come November.

Ah, sorry, you’re right – you can influence an ELECTION by not showing up. That’s my mistake. But can you influence a party? Are the Republicans going to see low Republican turnout and say, “oh, we’re sorry, we’ll be more like you guys in the future”? Or are they going to say, “well, those hard conservative voters just don’t show up to vote, so we’ll just have to attract more Independents next election”? And if they don’t know why you didn’t show up, how are they going to bring you back?

I guess what I’m saying is, whether you vote or not isn’t going to send a message to anybody – or if it does, it probably won’t be the one you intended (as above). Instead of hoping your absence will be an appropriate mailman, it might be wiser to find another way to express your dissatisfaction with the Republican Party (a more effective way), while voting for whoever you find to be the better of the two candidates.

I don’t “fear” an Obama presidency. We are too strong a country for that and he is too big a moron to cause any significant damage to this wonderful republic! He’s a small man with a small mind who will accomplish small things! McCain on the other hand is a liberal Republican who I simply cannot get excited about. As a conservative he has done nothing to inspire me! At every turn he has stuck his thumb in my eye. If you don’t get this then you aren’t a conservative. That’s ok but stop denigrating us. That’s the problem with the Republican party right now! And the reason that many of us have left and won’t return any time soon and have stopped sending money!

We have two major party candidates who are the presumptive nominees for each Party, and a handful of splinter candidacies running, as well. Vote your conscience.

If you cannot vote your conscience, then, don’t vote at all. This 16 years of sniping, pettiness, stupidity, has done exactly what to help get this country back on track?

I’m a Conservative. I don’t have to prove that to anyone. My record speaks for itself. I will be voting for McCain. Not my first choice in the primaries, not even my third choice. But, you play the cards you were dealt. If you can’t do that, then don’t bother sitting down at the adult table.

To those who claim to be conservative, but don’t like McCain, seems you have only a handful of options. Vote for McCain. Vote for Obama. Vote for a third party candidate. Don’t vote at all.

But actions have consequences. Inaction, that too, has consequences.

Frankly, I don’t care who the rest of the nation votes for…we get the leadership we deserve anyway.

But where were all of you “real” conservatives for the last 16 years? Bickering like small children? Involved at the local level to assist Conservative candidates get elected to Congress. Corresponding to the RNC leadership? Meeting face to face with RNC leadership or your GOP Congressional representive or Senator? Or a member of their staff? Or a member of their election committee or campaign? Out in the hustings? Before the primaries? During the primaries?

Or were you sitting at home, the total extent of your political involvement being writing snappy comebacks on a blog site?

I don’t know where this 9% keeps coming from as RCP says 19.3%. RCP also says that Democrats are ahead (”generically”) of Republicans 49.3% to 37.5%.

MB4 on August 18, 2008 at 2:53 AM

I think you’re missing the point here. You have 2 candidates you dont like equally. But one of them will have control of Congress, making him far more potentially desctructive. And thus you help make the hole far bigger for Reagan 2 or FDR 2 or whatever savior you’ve waiting for that probably will never come.

Well, after you claimed that the republicans will go along with McCain ‘working’ with the democrats because of his evil mind control powers that he will have over them, and you haven’t proved your ridiculous claim with any fact what so ever, I don’t feel very compelled to sit an bark when you command it, right4life. Go on making a fool of yourself. It’s amusing to watch.

Awww, come on – we all know that Juan McAmnesty is evil and hates all conservatives and wants to destroy the republican party for the next 40 years, right? He must be using his evil mind control powers to that goal! Right!?/

Doesn’t Barack carry a Hindu god with him everywhere? Friends, you should be utterly terrified making the Messianic comparison between Barack and the GOOD LORD JESUS CHRIST — even for fun. It’s not worth the laugh or reaction you might get doing it. Reporting the story is one thing, but feeding the myth is another. Please, be careful everybody.